Southernfiction Stories

When Sarah and Tom move their family into an old Southern house, they expect creaking floors and history - not the soft presence that seems to listen from the walls. The haunting isn't violent. It's patient. It's waiting. Through their daughter Becky's quiet connection to a woman long forgotten, the family begins to uncover a truth erased from their own lineage - a love silenced, a name unwritten, a memory that refuses to fade. As the house exhales its secrets, Sarah and Tom must decide whether remembrance can heal what silence destroyed. The House That Remembered is a story of lineage, love, and the gentle haunting of truth - where peace arrives not through exorcism, but through acknowledgment.

Allison Kennedy is finally home. But before she walks back into the cabin she once shared with Jim Harlow, there's one stop she needs to make first. Some debts don't disappear with time. And some women should've known better than to touch her cowboy's hat.

North of Dallas, Hope has a motel. Hope's Motel is a southern Christian romance novella, flavored with Texan tongue-in-cheek wisdom, and offering another perspective on PTSD treatment as well as faith-based therapy. Hope's Motel is about how redemption and second chances are always possible. Eleven chapters, 120 pp, 32,000 words. Soon to be published on Amazon.

Allison Newton is head over heels in love with Joseph Holmes, the high school basketball player of McDaniel High School in McDaniel, Kentucky. She wants to date him, but is he even interested in her? Little does she know, Brianna Tyler, who happens to be the principal's daughter, wants to date Joseph too. With that said, Allison has some competition. Which girl will be able to win the love of a popular basketball player?

He flies into danger. She teaches children to dream. Neither expects God to write a love story that spans oceans. Commander Grant "Atlas" Hollis has spent his career flying F/A-18 Super Hornets from the decks of aircraft carriers, earning a reputation as the pilot everyone can depend on. His call sign, Atlas, was given because he has a habit of carrying everyone else's burdens-but after years of deployments and heartbreaking loss, the weight is becoming too much for even him to bear. Third-grade teacher Anna Whitfield has built a quiet life in the small town of Cedar Ridge, Alabama. Her classroom is a place of kindness, encouragement, and second chances, but after watching too many people leave, she's convinced that loving someone whose duty calls them across the world is a risk she can't afford to take. When Grant returns home between assignments and volunteers to help restore Cedar Ridge Elementary, an unexpected friendship begins over fresh paint, homemade pies, baseball games beneath Friday night lights, and conversations that heal wounds neither of them knew how to name. As love quietly takes root, new orders send Grant back to sea, forcing them to trust God through months of distance, uncertainty, and sacrifice. With every takeoff comes another prayer. With every letter comes another reminder that some promises are worth waiting for. But when a dangerous mission changes everything, Grant and Anna must decide whether faith is strong enough to overcome fear-and whether home is a place on a map or the person God has prepared for you. Heartfelt, hopeful, and filled with the warmth of Southern charm, Where the Sky Finds Home is a moving Christian romance about courage, calling, and discovering that the strongest hearts aren't the ones that carry every burden alone-they're the ones willing to let love help bear the weight. Sometimes the longest journey isn't across the ocean... it's learning where your heart truly belongs.

Short story told in five flash fiction vignettes, according to the regions of the tongue and the flavors associated with them, the whole of which make up the indescribable umani taste: bitter, sweet, sour, salt, and vanilla, the most complex spice on earth. Originally printed in the online literary magazine Revolution John, then later reprinted and featured on Medium in the literary publication Human Parts.

When a sneeze, a candle, and some really old wallpaper team up, an entire historic house goes up in flames.....and that's just the first five minutes of my childhood. I'm Blondie, and this is the completely true (mostly) story of me, my best friend Boo, and my little brother The Goob growing up wild in the Mississippi Delta and Arkansas in the 1960s and '70s. From getting expelled for ghost-hunting at Miss Black's School for Boys, to accidentally capturing a bank robber (with a little help from a pitchfork and Elvis Presley), to burning down landmarks, car chases in golf carts, and one very memorable trip to a Gentleman's Club, trouble has a way of finding us.This isn't your sweet, nostalgic Southern memoir. This is the unfiltered, laugh-out-loud chaos of three boys with more bad ideas than common sense, a doctor dad who somehow kept us alive, and enough mischief to make Huck Finn look like a hall monitor.If you love wild coming-of-age adventures, Southern humor, and stories that feel like sitting on a porch swapping the best (and worst) tales of your life, buckle up. Things only get crazier from here. Welcome to the Southern Adventure Series. First stop: Me, Boo, and The Goob.

Thirteen thousand years before the present, Alan is torn from his modern life and cast into ancient Alabama - a land of towering forests, extinct beasts, and tribes on the edge of becoming. Gifted with uncanny language comprehension and a bag that defies the laws of nature, he awakens in a world untouched by history, where survival is sacred and every choice echoes through generations. As Alan builds a village from the bones of ruin, he discovers he is not the only one displaced. Others have been pulled from their timelines, scattered across a world that does not understand them. When a monstrous warlord known as Death Fang begins collecting the living for a tower that preserves consciousness at the cost of becoming, Alan, Lexi, Mac, and Maggie are drawn into a conflict far larger than survival. What begins as a rescue becomes a reckoning. What begins as fear becomes defiance. What begins as survival becomes choice. As tribes unite, displaced souls awaken, and old enemies become unexpected allies, Alan's village transforms into a beacon of possibility. Watermills rise where war once raged. Trade routes replace bloodshed. And the world‑tree, once a prison, becomes a symbol of renewal. The Village at the River's Edge is a sweeping tale of found family, ancient mysteries, and the fragile, fearless act of choosing who we become. It is a story about the cost of safety, the power of refusal, and the simple, stubborn hope that even in a world carved by loss, a home can still be built - one choice at a time .

Jim knows Allie's memory problems could get worse. Before that happens, he asks her to do something she's been avoiding-call her parents and tell them the truth. The conversation quickly turns emotional as Pete and Marie Kennedy realize just how serious their daughter's condition might be. Questions are asked. Old tensions resurface. And Jim is forced to give a promise that means more than anyone on the call understands. But when Allie later recalls the moment in Houston with Dr. Mike Burns, the memory doesn't end with the phone call. Because the part that stayed with her... was something colder. And this time, she remembers what it cost.

When a freak blizzard traps a handful of strangers inside a roadside Waffle House, waitress Ruby Dean does what she always does-keeps the coffee hot and the lights on. But this storm isn't like the others. The power fails, phones die, and a quiet stranger at the counter seems to know more about salvation than any preacher in town. Through the long night, confessions spill, hearts crack open, and faith flickers back to life one cup of coffee at a time. By dawn, the storm will end-but no one inside will ever see the world the same way again. A tender, haunting story about mercy, ordinary miracles, and the stubborn light that stays on when everything else goes dark.

This chapter is part of the novel HOME by Gunner Tate. To experience the full story in order, you can read it here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/404236582-home Jim returns to the one place that has always steadied him-his mother's side. In a quiet hospital room, Virginia Harlow gives her son one final mission, placing everything he needs to find his way back to Allie in the palm of his hand. After the funeral, Jim is left alone in the silence of the cabin, armed only with a note, a ring, and the memory of Mama's words. When prayers lead him to St. Mary's, a conversation with Father Greene becomes the first step in fulfilling her plan. She knew he was lost without her. She also knew exactly where home was. ⸻ 💬 "Your Mama has a plan, Jimmy... you'll see."

Olivia Turner was pretty, smart, kind, God-fearing and hard working. She was the girl every family wanted their daughters to grow up to be like. That is until she made one mistake that would divide a small town and forever change the course of two families. A Planting Season: Volume One of the Cotton Chronicles, is a fictional account of the trials and tribulations of two families in rural South Alabama during the Great Depression. It is the story of strong women who find a way to succeed against all odds and in spite of their ne'er-do-well men. At times a raucous ride while at others a heart rending tale, A Planting Season has something for everyone. You will cheer for some characters while plotting the demise of others. As you read A Planting Season, bring a shovel and a tissue. You will need both! What the Experts Are Saying: Bravo! There is so much heart and soul in this story. So Southern... and Real! ~Debra Webb, USA Today Best Selling Author The opening introduction paragraph makes this instantly historical and reads easily like fiction while presenting more like light nonfiction. Setting and character descriptions are vivid... it has strong writing that creates a historical tone and narrative voice. ~Carly Watters, Literary Agent The Cotton Chronicles capture an important chapter in American history. The writing is nicely atmospheric. ~Ann Leslie Tuttle, Harlequin Senior Editor Riveting! Features well developed characters and plot you will read more than once! ~RC Finley, Author Betty McMurtry's writing is like setting a match to an Atlas rocket! ~Craig Allen Johnson, NY Times Best Selling Author of "The Walt Longmire Mysteries" I read this book in one day. My kids asked what's for dinner and I told them to order pizza. I couldn't stop reading! ~Reader TE

A heartwarming ghost story told by the ghost! Perfect for all ages. Set in South Georgia, forty years after the Civil War, "Obadiah: A Ghost's Story" is the tale of Obadiah Sampson, a carpenter's assistant who dies while helping to build a strange house for one of the town's wealthiest families, the Stanleys. Angels bar him from entering heaven and enlist him for an undefined mission. He later assumes his task is to protect the Stanleys from their arch-rivals, the Leiber family, a clan who will stop at nothing to reclaim a treasure in gold and diamonds. Obadiah soon meets the Stanleys' eight-year-old daughter, Avie, who has the unique ability to see and talk to the kindhearted ghost, and Obadiah forges a grandfatherly bond with the young girl. After a family tragedy, Obadiah learns his true task is to protect Avie at all costs. The Leibers devise multiple dastardly plans to secure the Stanley treasure. Obadiah's challenges prove more complicated as multiple threats emerge, threatening to thwart him at every turn. Can Obadiah stop the increasingly dangerous Leibers from harming Avie and find the eternal peace he craves? Or will his actions break the bonds of their friendship and cause him to remain earthbound forever?

Sometimes healing doesn't arrive loudly. Sometimes it sounds like an old V8 rolling into town...A stage light flickering back to life...Or a forgotten guitar finally singing again. While Jim fights his way through restless nights and old ghosts, Luke "Mad Max" Maddox quietly begins fixing the broken things around him - the Dalton house, the Rusty Spur... and maybe pieces of Sable Dalton too. But some songs carry memories powerful enough to stop an entire room cold.

Travis Mackleroy has just moved to Louisiana, from Chicago. He wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of the city life, and spend it somewhere more laid back. He lives in Thomasville, a quaint town, 20 miles from Shreveport. However, he keeps getting pulled over by Harriet Brewster, a female state trooper for the Louisiana State Police. Travis hasn't done anything wrong, and he has a hate hate relationship with Harriet. As soon as Travis regrets moving to Louisiana, he soon develops a love interest in Harriet. He soon finds out, that she was just lonely, and needed someone to talk to. They hit it off, and Travis falls head over heels in love, Louisiana style! Cover done by @LionessRoars

Everyone in church thinks I'm perfect. But no one knows I just buried a body. Jalicia Jones is the pride of Kingdom Glory Tabernacle-beautiful, polite, and the daughter of the beloved Pastor Jones. But behind the angelic smile lies a dangerous obsession. Her best friend is the only person who makes her feel alive. The only person she wants. The only person she'll never let go. But her friend doesn't love her back. Worse-she likes boys. Every time someone gets too close, they end up hurt... or dead. Now Jalicia's secrets are piling up like bodies, and one wrong move could expose everything. In a town full of prayers and pretenders, how far will she go for a love that doesn't want her?

In Savannah, Georgia, reputation is everything-but the truth is what haunts you. Daniel Levine built a career on honesty, but when a ghost from his past shows up on his doorstep, he's forced to face the one case that broke him-a murder trial tied to a secret he's never confessed. As old bonds and buried guilt resurface, Daniel is caught between redemption and destruction in a Southern legal drama where nothing is black and white... especially not the law. Secrets don't stay buried in Savannah. They just grow roots.

In a world reborn from silence, two twins carry the power to end and begin. Seventy years after The Last War-a global electromagnetic storm that erased every circuit, every archive, and every explosive-the Earth has regrown into something strange and sacred. Fossil fuels are folklore. The internet is a whisper. And in the desert village of Santa Luminaria, two children are born with mirrored gifts: Mateo can take life. Marisol can give it. Together, they are immortal. Apart, they begin to unravel. As the world shifts around them-technology rebuilt from scrap, nations reborn under new names, and old myths twisted into new truths-the twins remain unchanged. Their skin never blemishes. Their eyes never dull. Their bodies never age past twenty. The villagers protect them. The outside world must never know. But time has a way of creeping in. And when the Ascended Dawn begins to stir, the twins must decide: Will they remain hidden gods in a forgotten town... or become something more? A story of eco-punk survival, mythic power, and the quiet ache of immortality. The Life and Death of Us is a speculative saga about what it means to live forever in a world that refuses to stand still.

Randolph Randy Camp's Southern noir tale False Dandelions is about a band of city criminals trying to set up shop in a quiet rural town in Virginia. It's a story about the lives and dreams of underdogs, filled with romance, heartache, small town secrets and murder. Available in paperback and eBook Kindle on Amazon.

There's more to life than what we see... Landry Masoner has been blind since birth. Even so, she can see better than most. Those closest to her say she's psychic, but she says she merely sees with her heart. The one person her heart didn't see coming, though, was Dawson Jones. All Dawson wanted was to make enough money over the summer to get out of the small town that was smothering the life out of him. However, working at the Masoner Farm turned out to be more than just a summer job, opening his eyes to things he didn't even realize he was looking for.